How to Use dame in a Sentence

dame

noun

• She was made a dame the year before she died.
• The grand dames of the South are smart cookies—make that tea cakes.
  — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2016
• In other words, the old dame’s new dress is not off-the-rack.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• The grand dame of the resort has the best view in the house with a jacuzzi on the 715 square foot balcony.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2023
• Now 76, Thompson is a grand dame of the British folk scene.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2024
• The bowl is a grand dame, to me and to a whole lot of other people.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
• Once in Paris, they were sold to the lady’s clique of chic French dames.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 14 June 2019
• In 2006 she was made a dame on the queen’s New Year’s Honors list.
  — Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• Linares, 67, is very much the grand dame of the flamenco world.
  — Helena Alonso Paisley, miamiherald, 5 Mar. 2018
• For 100 years, Agatha Christie has reigned supreme as the grand dame of mystery.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• The grand dame of the Cultural Campus has reigned at the fort since 1929.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2021
• The Park Lane grand dame was just treated to its biggest makeover since the 1980s.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 July 2023
• Why choose Philly for your grand debut as a grand dame of song?
  — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Watch tonight's episode and see how much damage one dame can do!
  — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 16 Feb. 2018
• In 2014, she was made a dame for services to British fashion.
  — Danica Kirka, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• On a sad note, the grand dame of the historic district, M. Joan Malpas, died on Sept. 17.
  — Janet Kusterer, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• The knights and dames who join them wear white mantles with red crosses.
  — Kristina Krug, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• The grandes dames look poised to remain the ruling class at Roland Garros.
  — Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• Look, Broadway’s had some great dames tread its boards.
  — Vulture, 30 Oct. 2023
• Dame Lynn was made a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1975.
  — Lawrence Van Gelder, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2020
• The actress was made an honorary dame in the order by the Queen in 2014, The Telegraph reports.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 June 2018
• In an episode that ran in 2016, the grand dame recalled her mother’s support.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Even the grand dame of this high society faked her way in, just as Maxine did.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 8 May 2024
• The grand dame was dead, and the freewheeling young woman was fashion’s new muse.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
• The designer was made a dame for services to fashion in 2006.
  — Summer Meza, The Week, 30 Dec. 2022
• The Colonial Inn has been Ogunquit's grand dame hotel for more than 130 years.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The cinema and the theater have lost a true dame with the death of actress Angela Lansbury.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
• In 2014, she was made a dame — the female equivalent of a knight — for services to British fashion.
  — By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Fury of the Gods, the 77-year-old dame tries her hand at a new genre, suiting up for her first-ever superhero movie.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Her mother was a famed blaxploitation star and her grandmother was a grand dame of the theater.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024